War Hero

They're Â£4 from most hardware stores (and anglers stores, for weighing fish) in my experience (having broken several and having to get replacements).

Of course, you can get 25kg bags of sand from B&Q (I got 25kg of Kiln dried sand for Â£2.70 last week, which is what I carry now, replacing a collection of books and magazines, FHM is particularly good to run with....)

With you there, BB. I use a load of two litre bottles of water, made up to 45 lbs. They fill the bergan out quite nicely, and are useful for a drink at the end also.

"The thanks of the infantry, in my opinion, must be treasured more by every artilleryman than all decorations and citations. "
- Colonel Georg Bruchmuller
Imperial German Army Artillery Officer and Father of Modern Fire Support

LE

I got one off eBay a few months ago and they're great. String it up with a prussic loop over one of them pull-up bar thingies and bob's yer auntie's live-in lover! Great stuff.

"I firmly believe that we should not march into Baghdad. To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero. Assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war." George Bush Snr, A World Transformed, 1998